Mount Elbert
Mount Elbert is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America. With an elevation of 14,440 ft, it is also the highest point in the U.S. state of Colorado and the second-highest summit in the contiguous United States after Mount Whitney, which is slightly taller.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,423 feet
- Description: Highest mountain in the US state of Colorado (14,440‘)
- Also known as: “Mt. Elbert”
Places of Interest
Highlights include French Mountain.
French Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
French Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,966-foot thirteener is located on the Elbert Massif in San Isabel National Forest, 13.0 miles southwest by west of the City of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twin Lakes.
Twin Lakes
Hamlet
Photo: Toshihiro Matsui, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Twin Lakes is a pair of glacier-carved alpine lakes about 15 miles south of historic Leadville, Colorado. They are downstream along the Arkansas River, whose headwaters are by Leadville.
Mount Elbert
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Lake, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.11775° or 39° 7′ 4″ northLongitude
-106.44538° or 106° 26′ 43″ westElevation
14,423 feet (4,396 metres)Open location code
85FM4H93+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 358915477OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mount Elbert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل إلبرت”
- Armenian: “Էլբերտ”
- Basque: “Elbert mendia”
- Belarusian: “Гара Элберт”
- Belarusian: “Элберт”
- Belarusian: “Элбэрт”
- Catalan: “Mont Elbert”
- Cebuano: “Mount Elbert”
- Chinese: “埃尔伯特峰”
- Chinese: “埃爾伯特峰”
- Chinese: “阿爾伯特峰”
- Czech: “Mount Elbert”
- Danish: “Mount Elbert”
- Dutch: “Mount Elbert”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل البرت”
- Esperanto: “Monto Elbert”
- Estonian: “Mount Elbert”
- Finnish: “Mount Elbert”
- French: “mont Elbert”
- French: “Mont Elbert”
- Georgian: “ელბერტი”
- German: “Mount Elbert”
- Hebrew: “הר אלברט”
- Hungarian: “Mount Elbert”
- Italian: “Monte Elbert”
- Japanese: “エルバート山”
- Korean: “앨버트 산”
- Korean: “엘버트산”
- Ladin: “Mount Elbert”
- Marathi: “माउंट एल्बर्ट”
- Northern Frisian: “Mount Elbert”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Elbert”
- Persian: “کوه البرت”
- Polish: “Mount Elbert”
- Portuguese: “Monte Elbert”
- Romanian: “Muntele Elbert”
- Russian: “Элберт”
- Serbian: “Маунт Елберт”
- Slovak: “Mount Elbert”
- Slovenian: “gora Elbert”
- Slovenian: “Mount Elbert”
- Slovenian: “Mt. Elbert”
- Spanish: “Monte Elbert”
- Spanish: “Mt. Elbert”
- Swahili: “Mlima Elbert”
- Swedish: “Mount Elbert”
- Ukrainian: “Елберт”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ایلبرٹ”
- Venetian: “Monte Elbert”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ البرٹ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Elbert”. Photo: Hogs555, CC BY-SA 4.0.